Box-cover for the exhibition of samples



UNITED STATES PATENT OEEICE.

C. O. CROSBY, OE NEW'HAVEN, CONNECTICUT.

BOX-COVER FOR THE EXHIBITION OF SMPLES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 48,794, dated July 18, 1865.

.'70 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, C. O. CROSBY, ot' New Haven, in the county ot' New Haven and State of Connecticut; have invented a new and useful Improvement in Box-Covers for the Exhibition of Samples; and I do hereby declare the following, when taken in connection with the accompanying drawings and the letters of reference marked thereon, to be a full, clear, and exact description ofthe same, and which said drawings constitute part of this specification, and represent, in

Figure 1, a perspective view of a box, showing a sample tish -hook; Fig. 2, a transverse section of the same,and in Fig. 3 a perspective view without the sample attached.

My invention relates to an improvement in that class of boxes which are used in packing articles for sale, upon the outside ot' which it is desirable to place a sample ot' the contents of the box; and it consists in forming a depres- `sion in the cover, and from one and the same piece ot' material, deep enough to place a sample therein, and so that the boxes may be placed one upon another without interfering with the sample.

To enable others to construct boxes with my improvement, I will proceed to fully describev the same as illustrated in the accompanying drawings.

The body ofthe box A is constructed in the usual manner and of the size required for the articles .to be placed therein. The cover B is also formed in the usual manner, but before or after it has been formed I make a depression, C, by means ofdes prepared for the purpose ot' the t'orm desired in which to place the sample, as seen in Fig. l. The sample here shown is a Kirby Bend tish-hook, which requires that a deeper depression, a, should be made to accommodate the bend,as seenin Figs.1and2,aud also a deeper depression, c, for the head otthe hook, as seen in Figs. l and 3. Other forms ofhooks may require different depressions to be made in the cover. When the hookissecured inthe cover, as seen in Fig. l, the boxes containing hooks may be placed one upon another without interfering with the sample.

Although my improvement is specially designed for fish-hooks, yet the same construction ofthe cover is equally applicable to boxes for packingotherarticles, the sampleof which it is desirable to show upon the outside ot'the box, in which case the depression should be formed with reference to the article to be placed thereon.

Having'therefore thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new and useful, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

Making a depression iu the cover of boxes for the purpose described, when the said depression is formed from the same material as the cover, substantially as and in the manner described.

' C. O. CROSBY. Witnesses:

JOHN E. EARL, MARY A. HTNE. 

